With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears.
As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters.
Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.
My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.
I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long.
For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.
I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting.
The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.
England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.
If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.
I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.
Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.
War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.
Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.
That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.
When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself.
Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.